Nicole Loven

@nrloven.bsky.social

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Filmmaker, photographer, time-traveller, gardener, transgender, nerd. She/her

A green plant with long grass-like leaves and a single white flower that resembles a tulip.
A young woman with dark hair and pale skin dressed in Tudor clothing holds her hand out in front of her. A robin, a small brown and orange bird is landing on her hand.
A single flower with a brown hairy lip and three pink sepals
A green stalk covered in bright pink flowers that resemble little men with pink buttons up their fronts.
A cluster of pink and white flowers, each resembling a little monkey with a bonnet, long arms and a short tail
Sitting among brown, dry fallen leaves, four small plants grow. They each have a pair of rounded leaves at the base and a single stem with small green flowers growing from the sides.
A purple and white flower spike. Individual flowers vaguely resemble a woman in a white and pink dress wearing a dark cherry red bonnet
A small orchid consisting of a single stem with long leaves alternating up it. At the top two white tulip-like flowers bloom.
A pale green and yellow flower with a furry lip of rich brown patterned with a purplish brown
Pale yellow green orchid with vaguely humanoid lower petals, the arms and legs of which are a reddish colour.
Pale pink orchids
A close up of a magenta orchid flowers with a pale patch in the centre spotted with more magenta. The sides of the flower have fine green lines running in parallel
A loose spike of magenta orchid flowers with a white centre. Surrounded by verdant grass.
A close up of a tight cluster of pink orchid flowers. The lower petal forms a vaguely humanoid shape with a green tinge to tips of the arms and legs.
A small bird hovering next to an outstretched hand.
A European robin feeding from the palm of a human hand. Early morning light shines through the robin's wings.
An eagle soaring in a pale sky.
The face of a snake only just peering out of a whole next to a large grey rock.
The grey scaly face of a snake looking out of a hole. Its bronze coloured eye gazes with a narrow vertical pupil.
A red-headed woman in 18th century clothes, lying on a dry fallen tree trunk.
Another rose chafer in the centre of a pink roses, this one appears gold and metallic green.
A beetle, the size of a thumb, sits at the centre of a bright pink rose. Its glossy carapace is iridescent metallic green and bronze.
Two variegated pink roses in dark blue glass vase.
A large yellow, black and dark red wasp feeding on a rotten apple. Its large mandibles can be seen clearly, chewing on the drying apple skin.
A caterpillar on a sweetcorn leaf. Underneath it are many bundles of yellow silken pupae from which parasitic wasps will soon emerge.
A rose coloured like red wine and blood. A hover fly sits on a petal.
A strawberry-red rose with a white center, glows when back-lit by an early morning sun
Close up of purple, red and orange tulips
A pond surrounded by long grass and flowers.
Growing from the tiniest of gaps between bricks, a vigorous green plant reaches upwards.
A pale green-brown snake submerged in a pond with its face sticking out of the water. It is tasting the air with a protruding forked grey tongue.
An ammonite with iridescent mother of pearl preserved.
A woman in a pink dress decorated with an ammonite pattern stands behind a table covered in ammonite fossils of various sizes.
An ornate 17th century style glass used as a vase to hold a host of colourful tulips and other spring flowers.
Three roughly heart-shaped rocks on a wooden table.
A dark grey fossilised vertebra held in my left hand. A small oyster shell is attached to the side.
A rough grey oyster shell showing a curved series of bumps on one side where it moulded over the side of an ammonite shell.
The fractal-like surface of a chamber partition in an ammonite shell. A grey brown material with glossy highlights that shine vivid blue and green.
A left hand upon which is balanced and array of fossils, including flattened spiral ammonites, a bullet-like belemnite and an oyster-like gryphea.
A red fox wading through a shallow stream. Green leaves reflect in the rippling water. The fox looks towards the camera.
Pieces of the ammonite shell that would have been the body chamber that the animal itself lived in. Frequently, this is the only part preserved as sediment fills the chamber and prevents it collapsing. Strong orange yellow and green iridescence is present.
Ornate fossil ammonites, the original nacre preserved with a pinkish hue. Iridescence produces highlights of green, pink, blue and yellow.
Rainbow colored iridescent ammonites. Most of them only partial except for a few very small ones.